Hash: SHA256

Package        : libidn2-0
Version        : 0.8-2+deb7u1
CVE ID         : CVE-2017-14062
Debian Bug     : #873902

It was discovered that there was an integer overflow vulnerability
in libidn2-0's Punycode handling (an encoding used to convert Unicode
characters to ASCII) which would have allowed attackers to cause a
remote denial of service.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in libidn2-0 version
0.8-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn2-0 packages.


Regards,

- -- 
      ,''`.
     : :'  :     Chris Lamb
     `. `'`      lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
       `-

Debian LTS: DLA-1085-1: libidn2-0 security update

September 3, 2017
It was discovered that there was an integer overflow vulnerability in libidn2-0's Punycode handling (an encoding used to convert Unicode characters to ASCII) which would have allow...

Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in libidn2-0 version
0.8-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libidn2-0 packages.


Regards,

- --
,''`.
: :' : Chris Lamb
`. `'` lamby@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk
`-



Severity
Package : libidn2-0
Version : 0.8-2+deb7u1
CVE ID : CVE-2017-14062
Debian Bug : #873902

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